racism Quotes and Quotations
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racism Quotes and Quotations
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One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. Alvin Ailey | top
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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. Alvin Ailey | top
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. Harry A. Blackmun | top
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them. Cate Blanchett | top
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I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. Lisa Bonet | top
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. Eldridge Cleaver | top
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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. Bob Cousy | top
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. Angela Davis | top
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Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. Newt Gingrich | top
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My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night. Lee Grant | top
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The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. Tim Holden | top
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Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist. Michael Hutchence | top
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. Patricia Ireland | top
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. Alija Izetbegovic | top
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Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism. Florynce R. Kennedy | top
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My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. Wentworth Miller | top
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As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people. Steve Mitchell | top
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I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. Constance Baker Motley | top
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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. Constance Baker Motley | top
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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. Huey Newton | top
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You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. Bobby Seale | top
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Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. Sargent Shriver | top
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Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. Sargent Shriver | top
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No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. Joe Slovo | top
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I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism. Albert Speer | top
